Please click the "Remote Lessons" tab for a growing list of resources you can use during this Covid 19 Pandemic.
FREE RESOURCES:
1. Google Classroom: Create a class, have students join with a code. Upload assignments, links, etc, and students can submit their work as images within Google Docs.
2. Facebook Group: Temporary School Closure Support
3. Facebook Live: Live videos of you teaching. Many can watch at the same time.
4. SeeSaw is recommended for lower grades, like K-5
5. Google Hangouts where you can have live conversations
6. Create packets of simple lessons that can be done at home with minimal supplies like pencils and copy paper. Many blogs offer free lessons. List of Art Ed Blogs HERE.
7. Arts and Culture on Google offer daily art exposure and potential lessons
8. Khan Academy - An Academic approach to art.
9. Some districts have "CANVAS" built into their school dashboards for remote teaching. Your district may have additional information on that. I understand Google Classroom is easier, but some districts mandate Canvas which may connect to your grading platform too.
10. ZOOM is a program and app that allows you to host meetings. The free version allows for 40 minute sessions, but I believe that teachers in closed schools can get full access for free. (Comment below if you have details on this.)
11. Loom is a tool for screencasting and as of today, the pro features are now free for teachers and students ... forever! Kathleen Morris uses it and uploaded a tutorial here. She also updated a screencasting comparison chart in her MEGA Guide to teaching online due to school closures...
12. HUGE list of companies offering free resources while schools are closed HERE.
13. FREE Resources for teaching online HERE. (Tutorials and MORE!)
Free Videos:
I have many free videos you are welcome to share HERE. Some focus on short lessons, art history information, and more. I have another page with more than 100 video links you may find helpful in creating remote lessons HERE.
DISCOUNTED Resources:
If you are "old-school" in your approach, "Fifty K-12 Art Lessons: Creative Differentiated Explorations In Art" is a book that comes with rights for a teacher to make copies for all their students. Lessons can be done with simple pencil and copy paper, or with any media available to you. If you send kids home with baggies of simple supplies, you can include packets for them to complete, photograph and submit for a grade. Each lesson has a sample, a worksheet, sketch page, and lesson. Many lessons have shortened URLs to videos with demos. You can see inside the book HERE, The title link takes you to Amazon, but you can get it from the publisher for 30% off and Free shipping HERE.
If you need simple assessments, quizes, worksheets, simple pencil-and-paper written assignments, "Art Assessments" is great for grades 4 up to 12. This too comes with rights to make copies for your students. The title links you to Amazon, and you can see inside the book HERE. You can get it from the publisher for 30% off and Free shipping HERE.
Advice from Eddie Blass
Founder, Director, CEO of Inventorium at www.inventorium.com.au/
Teaching online for more than a decade.
Originally posted on Facebook HERE.
6 Tips for online teaching success:
1. Do not pre-record any video sessions for students. Either say it live (you can record live sessions and repost them), or put it a written document of some form. Pre-recording video is the biggest time waste because you spend so much time editing and fussing with it. Just record, go live, and save what you got.
I'm advocating that you video record live sessions only so that those who can attend synchronously benefit from Q&A, and those who can't benefit from watching the Q&A, which hopefully provides greater equity to those synchronous and asynchronous. Also it saves you time, stops you burning out, and ensures you build on what is already there rather than repeating it.
2. Use YouTube! There are millions of great videos on YouTube. We curate from YouTube for our online resource for everything except task introductions. Someone has already said what you are going to say (unless it’s a live conversation) and they have probably said it better than you would.
3. Do not run 1 hour sessions from start to finish. Go for 30 minutes planned, then interaction and Q&A. Deal with any individual student issues in that hour, as you would in the classroom.
4. Remember that listening to someone online for 30 minutes is hard work, so break the session down – ask kids to talk, or run a poll, or get them do something and show you, or whatever, but do not talk ‘at them’ like you might in a live classroom. You don’t need fancy tech for this – be creative.
5. Don’t get disheartened by non-response. Sit out a silence until someone talks. Once people start talking it will build, you just need someone brave to kick things off. Silence online feels much more uncomfortable for the facilitator than it does in a room where you can feel people thinking. You don’t get that energy online so you need to hold the space differently.
6. Try to use resources that were designed for online teaching – such as forums, wiki’s and chatrooms – you can also use what’s posted in this blog post to kick start discussions.
FREE RESOURCES:
1. Google Classroom: Create a class, have students join with a code. Upload assignments, links, etc, and students can submit their work as images within Google Docs.
2. Facebook Group: Temporary School Closure Support
3. Facebook Live: Live videos of you teaching. Many can watch at the same time.
4. SeeSaw is recommended for lower grades, like K-5
5. Google Hangouts where you can have live conversations
6. Create packets of simple lessons that can be done at home with minimal supplies like pencils and copy paper. Many blogs offer free lessons. List of Art Ed Blogs HERE.
7. Arts and Culture on Google offer daily art exposure and potential lessons
8. Khan Academy - An Academic approach to art.
9. Some districts have "CANVAS" built into their school dashboards for remote teaching. Your district may have additional information on that. I understand Google Classroom is easier, but some districts mandate Canvas which may connect to your grading platform too.
10. ZOOM is a program and app that allows you to host meetings. The free version allows for 40 minute sessions, but I believe that teachers in closed schools can get full access for free. (Comment below if you have details on this.)
11. Loom is a tool for screencasting and as of today, the pro features are now free for teachers and students ... forever! Kathleen Morris uses it and uploaded a tutorial here. She also updated a screencasting comparison chart in her MEGA Guide to teaching online due to school closures...
12. HUGE list of companies offering free resources while schools are closed HERE.
13. FREE Resources for teaching online HERE. (Tutorials and MORE!)
Free Videos:
I have many free videos you are welcome to share HERE. Some focus on short lessons, art history information, and more. I have another page with more than 100 video links you may find helpful in creating remote lessons HERE.
DISCOUNTED Resources:
If you are "old-school" in your approach, "Fifty K-12 Art Lessons: Creative Differentiated Explorations In Art" is a book that comes with rights for a teacher to make copies for all their students. Lessons can be done with simple pencil and copy paper, or with any media available to you. If you send kids home with baggies of simple supplies, you can include packets for them to complete, photograph and submit for a grade. Each lesson has a sample, a worksheet, sketch page, and lesson. Many lessons have shortened URLs to videos with demos. You can see inside the book HERE, The title link takes you to Amazon, but you can get it from the publisher for 30% off and Free shipping HERE.
If you need simple assessments, quizes, worksheets, simple pencil-and-paper written assignments, "Art Assessments" is great for grades 4 up to 12. This too comes with rights to make copies for your students. The title links you to Amazon, and you can see inside the book HERE. You can get it from the publisher for 30% off and Free shipping HERE.
Advice from Eddie Blass
Founder, Director, CEO of Inventorium at www.inventorium.com.au/
Teaching online for more than a decade.
Originally posted on Facebook HERE.
6 Tips for online teaching success:
1. Do not pre-record any video sessions for students. Either say it live (you can record live sessions and repost them), or put it a written document of some form. Pre-recording video is the biggest time waste because you spend so much time editing and fussing with it. Just record, go live, and save what you got.
I'm advocating that you video record live sessions only so that those who can attend synchronously benefit from Q&A, and those who can't benefit from watching the Q&A, which hopefully provides greater equity to those synchronous and asynchronous. Also it saves you time, stops you burning out, and ensures you build on what is already there rather than repeating it.
2. Use YouTube! There are millions of great videos on YouTube. We curate from YouTube for our online resource for everything except task introductions. Someone has already said what you are going to say (unless it’s a live conversation) and they have probably said it better than you would.
3. Do not run 1 hour sessions from start to finish. Go for 30 minutes planned, then interaction and Q&A. Deal with any individual student issues in that hour, as you would in the classroom.
4. Remember that listening to someone online for 30 minutes is hard work, so break the session down – ask kids to talk, or run a poll, or get them do something and show you, or whatever, but do not talk ‘at them’ like you might in a live classroom. You don’t need fancy tech for this – be creative.
5. Don’t get disheartened by non-response. Sit out a silence until someone talks. Once people start talking it will build, you just need someone brave to kick things off. Silence online feels much more uncomfortable for the facilitator than it does in a room where you can feel people thinking. You don’t get that energy online so you need to hold the space differently.
6. Try to use resources that were designed for online teaching – such as forums, wiki’s and chatrooms – you can also use what’s posted in this blog post to kick start discussions.
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